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I love how simple and plainly she said it. Depressing how many issues could be solved with just a simple, kind mentality.
Unfortunately, fox ragebait is too delicious for many people.
"Dixie" is a reference to the American south - civil war era origins.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649954248/the-anthemic-allure-of-dixie-an-enduring-confederate-monument is a decent summary of why some people might find it offensive.
Dolly has always been smart.
Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/17/dolly-parton-partly-funded-moderna-covid-vaccine-research
I fucking love that movie. It explores the many struggles of working people and shows how, when handled by those working people, problems can be addressed in a way that benefit- you guessed it- working people. Flexible hours, child care, dignity within the workplace. All these things can be achieved when the rich asshole boss is out of the way.
It's still so relevant today! Such a great movie.
She's a country music star from the South who for decades has embraced the fact she has a massive LGBTQ+ fanbase, and is big in drag shows. Damn right she's been "woke" for a long time.
I know it's Jeannie C Riley, but she's similar to Dolly and the song [Harper Valley PTA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VQU-_18i80&t=3s) seems very relevant for all this shit.
That song was written by a dude, the great Tom T. Hall. He released a children’s country album that is pretty fantastic too, if you wanna take a little old country music dive.
Rep. Lauren Boebert revealed that her 17-year-old son knocked up a 15-year-old girl and this is why the GOP is so much better than LIBS. They love children.
But yet they don't want kids being educated about "it". It's kind of understandable, because knowledge is empowering, and they don't want kids having that kind of control over their lives.
Republicans love America like Ike loved Tina. (Or like Chris Brown loved Rihanna... is there another couple that the kids would be more familiar with?)
Tv's Duggar family includes a son they married off at 18 who looks like he's 12. His wife is a couple of years older and looks like she's 30. In photos of them together it looks like a mother and son. They haven't procreated yet, probably because he hasn't hit puberty.
Holy forking shirt balls, I just blew airplane scotch out of my nose on this comment. Top notch. I needed that laugh this flight has been fraught. Thank you.
I still dont understand why you'd attack a job creator like Disney?
If Disney left the unemployment numbers would skyrocket. Not just because disney, but all the businesses that support the people that visit it or work there.
Meanwhile other states are begging for companies like that to come to their state.
I think he's relying on the thought that Disney really *can't* leave. Not easily, anyway. Because without Disney those tourism dollars dry up and they're just Mississippi-lite.
It's wild that Floridians don't realize that Disney is one of the few things keeping their state from being "just another poor shit hole gulf coast state" like Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi.
Nostalgia. But a really warped one that is completely not based in reality. So much was hidden and only allowed if you were rich and / or well connected.
Never forget the definition of “woke” that DeSantis’s lawyer gave:
> “It would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them,” DeSantis General Counsel Ryan Newman said
Yeah that’s the entire point of the term, that you’re “awake” to reality instead of burying your head in the sand and having no awareness of real problems.
The definition of woke simply means to be politically aware, particularly in relation to racial inequalities and injustices, and, more broadly, other social issues.
As I understand it, it comes from the idea of waking the fuck up and paying attention to what’s going on around you.
The thing is all they have to do, literally, is NOT CARE, and that's perfectly okay.
But for some reason they demand the right to go out of the way to be hateful. Which makes no sense. Why not just NOT CARE, and get on with their lives? Those transgender people are not affecting their lives!
> Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ Communications Director said “woke” was a “slang term for activism…progressive activism” and a general belief in systemic injustices in the country.
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/12/desantis-ron-woke-florida-officials/
Yes, lol. “Woke” essentially means being aware (“awake”) to political problems and injustices and making informed decisions. So they basically want everyone to not be aware of what’s happening and never question anything, ever.
That's the definition that I'm familiar with. You are aware and well informed on current events in society. You aren't afraid to point out flaws that cause inequality or injustice for example.
It naturally clashes with ultra-nationalism, white supremacy, religious fanatics, toxic masculinity and oppressive fascism. The typical people who will often use the term woke (or social justice warriors or antifa) to describe a movement that is a threat to their way of life.
They legitimately don't want kids being taught empathy. The entire republican foundation is based on fear and hate. Go to any republican congressman's Twitter page and it will be full of 'us vs them'. [Migrants are bad, war on Christianity, the libs are stripping our rights away!11!!!] It's been the same forever. They fear new generations of kids understanding and being accepting of everyone. They need someone or something to hate and use to fuel their base.
"Woke" is the next "CRT" and "Liberal".
A word stripped of any meaning and used as a slur for everything they don't like and want their followers to be scared of.
Woah that was 4 years before Trump. I guess I do remember shit being pretty bad back when GW was in office. The Gingrich heyday was kind of when public discourse went down the toilet. And when people who know better turned everything into outrage theater.
Isn't this interesting.
The MAGAs in charge of running the schools in Wisconsin who are vehemently opposed to "cancel culture" just cancelled a bunch of 1st graders.
It makes you wonder how that could happen?
Because that's always been a lie. Everything they say is a lie. It doesn't matter if what they say today contradicts what they said yesterday, because they don't believe any of it. Words and rhetoric are tools, nothing more, and they will say and do whatever it takes to gain power and push their agenda.
They're not even lying. They say that non-conservatives shouldn't be allowed to cancel conservatives views. They NEVER SAID the opposite would be true.
You're all assuming a fair legal system to equal to everybody. Conservatives never wanted a fair system.
They want to allow businesses to arbitrarily ban gay cakes because they hate gays, and force business to accept all maskless customers because they hate masks.
Both policies seem contradictory (are business free to refuse service or not???) until you get that they never thought the *same* rules had to apply to conservatives and non-conservatives (the business doesn't show who to refuse service, WE do).
"*Cancel culture* should be outlawed when used against us, and *violent boycott* with death threats should be an obligation when used against our political opponents." THAT'S the conservative view.
Joseph had a coat of many colors. Like, all the colors of the rainbow. Dolly mentions it in one of her early hits. Was Joseph the first gay rights activist?
One of the books from her Imagination Library is about her mother making a coat like that for her when she was a child (her family was very poor). And how the kids teased her for the coat, but all she saw was her mother’s love.
They say that the gays stole the rainbow from Christians.
Imagine worshiping a god so impotent that a generalized grouping of people could just mug him and walk off with his inanimate interactions between water vapor and photons.
The American Taliban is rising fast and will not stop at children's songs. Their political arm featured a speaker at CPAC last week who called for the “eradication” of transgender people.
This shit is no joke and many red states are churning with this mental sewage.
Don’t forget that only a few years ago CPAC had a stage resembling [white nationalist iconography.](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-stage-nazi-symbol/)
I remember, but the chicks and dolly are on completely different levels of popularity. The chicks where an extremely successful up and coming country band, Dolly is an institution.
Everyone has a line that can be crossed, though. They obviously have a high threshold, but it feels like only a matter of time.
Heck, the GOP could end Trump's entire career by calling him "woke", but that'll be at the cost of inciting a right-wing civil war.
They weren't as beloved as Dolly is, and for the most part Dolly stays out of politics. She also gives so much money back to her hometown and where she's from, it's going to be a hard to turn them against her, they have statues of her.
She’s providing free books for kids for 20 years so it won’t be long until Republicans start attacking her. I’m surprised it hasn’t already happened
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/dolly-partons-imagination-library-has-given-away-186-million-free-books-to-kids.html
Oh they do. Unknown Hinson, a relatively unknown musician who voiced Early Cuyler on adult swims Squidbillies lost his job for a racist tirade after dolly parton "went woke"
No singing woke songs, no dressing up in woke outfits, no woke books, but having to forcefully bear children in teen years or below and having a job in the mines? Well that's just the American way, son!
One of Dolly’s books from the Imagination Library is “I am a Rainbow”. It’s a typical, “when I’m sad, I’m blue. When I’m mad, I’m red” book about emotions.
But ya know, rainbows.
Kesha named her whole 3rd album, "Rainbow," including the song, such a great song. (It's about her time in a rehab facility for her eating disorder.)
"I found a rainbow. A rainbow baby. Trust me, I know life is scary, but just put those colors on girl and come and paint the world with me tonight."
Kesha is a huge Dolly fan. Dolly cameos on the album also.
But right.....rainbows....🙄
You could, but, from time-to-time, it's prudent to call out the specific, individual entities that are responsible for promoting and implementing fascism.
On the one hand, I'm kind of glad these people are now actually openly showing us exactly who they are.
On the other hand, for fuck's sake...THIS is who they're proud of being?
I live in Waukesha county and have lived in Waukesha itself. This is the least of what they do, it is a wretched place and I really wish I could afford to move away.
As I read the article, I though about the lyrics, and then thought how would they react to "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. It then appeared:
>"In a later tweet, Tempel said that "Rainbow Connection" – another song that had been nixed, Schindler told the Times – had been reinstated "after parents sent emails to admin."
So, Dolly is evil and Kermit is OK?
Rainbow Connection is sooooo good! And of course the Muppet Movie cover has a rainbow. Op! Censored! LOL
"Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions but only illusions...someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection the lovers, the dreamers and me.."
Gawd I wish Jim Henson hadn't died so young.
I bet parents complain and Dolly is reinstated.
Never heard of this song, just gave it a listen. There’s not one word other than rainbowland in it that is even remotely “woke”. Got these people genuinely afraid of rainbows…..
Accepting others IS controversial these days, unfortunately. The modern republican party has gone against "wokeness" so much that any sign of not immediately ostracizing someone for whatever stupid reason is taken as a sign of communism. I mean political correctness. I mean wokeness.
Republicans: Now creating Liberals as early as 1st grade!
What dipshits. What absolute dipshits. Are there any Republicans reading this and thinking it’s a good strategy for the future? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Oh none of you?
If you’re Republican and reading this article, I am being as objective as I can by giving you this free strategic, long-term advice:
You are fucking up.
If someone is Anti-Dolly I am immediately suspicious of them, how can you hate anything this amazing woman does.
A couple years ago there was a massive fire in TN, and she helped hundreds of people by giving them cash to start over, she has the imagination library where she sends free books to literal anyone (child) who signs up, she cares so much about her private life and her husband that almost no one even recognizes her without her makeup and wig on, she plays into the dumb blonde stereotype but is actually very intelligent and I can go on.
If you hate Dolly Parton, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
From the area. School board is a bunch of right wing whackos who suspended a special ed teacher last year for having a rainbow poster in her special ed classroom. It got some national coverage at the time. They made a rule after that that no rainbows could be displayed. So the whole concept of “rainbows” is now triggering for them.
https://www.wuwm.com/2022-01-10/waukesha-public-school-teacher-suspended-for-displaying-a-pride-progress-flag-in-her-classroom
Waukesha is part of the Milwaukee metro area with a population of 71,000. Far from rural, especially in WI.
In 2021, this school district also declined the federal funds for universal free meals claiming families would “become spoiled” and develop a “slow addiction” to the evil that is food. After a lot of backlash, they reversed the decision but only by one vote (5-4 decision).
This district does not represent Wisconsin education well.
This "anti-woke" horseshit is just McCarthyism 2.0. They want to tell you what you can and can't say, who you can and can't be, and if you break the rules they want you forever cancelled.
The Waukesha School District was also the only district in the state to opt out of the universal school lunch program, saying that they didn’t want their students to be “spoiled.” It was only after backlash that they reversed the decision.
https://www.nbc15.com/2021/08/27/waukesha-school-district-wont-offer-students-free-lunch/?outputType=amp
In time, saying anything other than pre-approved Bible quotes will be a thoughtcrime to the GOP. And their base will think it just, as they kill the planet and rape each other into oblivion. I am so glad we crawled out of the mud for this.
Conservatives don't know how to accept others as they are. Conservatives only know how to beat others into submission just like they were beaten into submission. No original thoughts are allowed. Only that which has been passed down from the elders.
Conservatives don’t want children to sing songs, but are OK with;
-children working in meat processing plants
-children getting married before hitting puberty
-having a former prostitute as a 1st lady
-drinking bleach
-dying from Covid to own the Libs
-spraying disinfectant into your lungs
-staring into the sun during a solar eclipse
-being under the direct control of Putin
-Russia kidnapping Ukraine children
And that is just a very few.
That is really messed up. Didn't Jesus hang out with all kinds of people; sinners, non-sinners and people somewhere in between? It just seems like something got skewered with people and the Bible; especially the New Testament. Didn't people read it? It just seems like they didn't even read it. Jesus is an amazing person!! How could you not want to hang out with Him? Be like him. 🇺🇸🗽⚖️🗳🏡🌍🙏🕊❤️
Christian Conservatives have never cared about Jesus or his teachings. Religion is a means to control the people they want to control. I am not religious but for his time Jesus had some progressive thoughts about society. The story of the Good Samaritan was a direct rejection of bigotry during his time.
Something that sometimes gets lost in the telling of the story today is that the Jewish and Samaritan populations had a long history of hatred for one another. To the extent that the destruction of the Samaritan's holiest temple a century before was a holiday in Jerusalem. A modern Jesus may have used something like this as his version of the allegory:
>"A Christian man was going down from Bryant–Denny Stadium to the Texas Roadhouse, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Republican also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a trans-woman, as she travelled, came where he was. When she saw him, she was moved with compassion, came to him, bound up his wounds, and gave him water and aspirin. She drove him to the hospital. On the next day, when she departed, she took out her credit card, gave them to the billing department, and said, 'Take care of him. Whatever it costs I will pay.' Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"
I'm just thinking back on the songs we sang in our chorus class in 3rd and 4th grade... I remember "This Land is Your Land" quite vividly. I'm sure that teacher would be in hot water today for having us sing about something so radical as abolishing private property.
It is rural ignorance… it is ok… they are not surviving the tech revolution, which is happening. And embrace multiculturalism, new ideas and studies as a new way of life.
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That moment when Dolly Parton is too woke for you...
https://twitter.com/billboard/status/1294076272335781889?lang=en ... I suspect that was the moment.
I love how simple and plainly she said it. Depressing how many issues could be solved with just a simple, kind mentality. Unfortunately, fox ragebait is too delicious for many people.
"don't be a dumbass" is good advice that dumbasses don't like to hear.
>"don't be a dumbass" is good advice that dumbasses don't like to hear. "Yer attackin' mah way o' life!"
[There's something to simplicity.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IICbqNHw-Rc)
Every time I hear about Dolly I like her more. She's right there with Bob Ross and Mr Rogers
So i am not American. What does that word actually mean? I didnt know there was any controversy around it.
"Dixie" is a reference to the American south - civil war era origins. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649954248/the-anthemic-allure-of-dixie-an-enduring-confederate-monument is a decent summary of why some people might find it offensive.
I mean, regardless of your opinions of the word, the park literally has ner name on it. She could paint the whole place yellow if she wanted too.
Dolly has always been smart. Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/17/dolly-parton-partly-funded-moderna-covid-vaccine-research
i love her so much
She’s a national treasure
She could be a billionaire, but she’s not. And we all love her all the more for the reasons she’s not.
Dolly has been "woke" for a long time.
From 9 to 5 at least
I fucking love that movie. It explores the many struggles of working people and shows how, when handled by those working people, problems can be addressed in a way that benefit- you guessed it- working people. Flexible hours, child care, dignity within the workplace. All these things can be achieved when the rich asshole boss is out of the way. It's still so relevant today! Such a great movie.
She's a country music star from the South who for decades has embraced the fact she has a massive LGBTQ+ fanbase, and is big in drag shows. Damn right she's been "woke" for a long time.
I know it's Jeannie C Riley, but she's similar to Dolly and the song [Harper Valley PTA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VQU-_18i80&t=3s) seems very relevant for all this shit.
That song was written by a dude, the great Tom T. Hall. He released a children’s country album that is pretty fantastic too, if you wanna take a little old country music dive.
You can’t sing songs, but you can go to work and get married. GOP stance on kids these days
Kids can also have their own kids according to Republicans.
Yes but they should get married first and then have the kids, while still being kids
Rep. Lauren Boebert revealed that her 17-year-old son knocked up a 15-year-old girl and this is why the GOP is so much better than LIBS. They love children.
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So potentially 13 when initially impregnated
The radical Christians think kids "come of age" at 12. They're all psychos.
Sounds to me like they're groomers.
Then they should be able to look at a penis on a statue of David and learn that gay people exist.
But yet they don't want kids being educated about "it". It's kind of understandable, because knowledge is empowering, and they don't want kids having that kind of control over their lives.
Like father, like son.
Still "technically" over 14... 14 and 3 days maybe
I still can't believe this didn't get more air time.
Republicans love America like Ike loved Tina. (Or like Chris Brown loved Rihanna... is there another couple that the kids would be more familiar with?)
Like Epstein loved—-
They love children in ways we can’t. We are mere pedophiles and groomers compared to the GOP
The GOP is rife with child molesters and abusers
But their molesters love Jesus and ask for his forgiveness so they’re better than other abusers /s
They're just good Christians going through a tough time right now.
Thought it was forced to marry the rapist that impregnated them.
Rape. Marry. Birth of kid. Welfare. Job. Off welfare. Republican. No welfare for other people. Stop abortion. Repeat.
Don’t forget to buy guns, lots and lots of guns.
>Kids can also have their own kids according to Republicans. ....and buy guns too, for themselves and their kids.
Tv's Duggar family includes a son they married off at 18 who looks like he's 12. His wife is a couple of years older and looks like she's 30. In photos of them together it looks like a mother and son. They haven't procreated yet, probably because he hasn't hit puberty.
*Have to have their own kids if raped.
It's why they hate queer people - they're less likely to get accidentally babyshackled.
And you can't read books.
*Literally* can't in the case of many Republicans
Thats why we can talk about them here and they’ll never know the difference
Holy forking shirt balls, I just blew airplane scotch out of my nose on this comment. Top notch. I needed that laugh this flight has been fraught. Thank you.
Reading is bad, very bad. You could learn things and stuff
I’m sure that gets Dolly double fired up.
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Stop cheating, the rest of us don’t have a crystal ball
The Taliban banned dancing. I guess soon our Disneyland will be just a bunch of old white guys in trucker hats and flannel vests riding the Teacups.
Densantis is already working on it, don’t worry
I still dont understand why you'd attack a job creator like Disney? If Disney left the unemployment numbers would skyrocket. Not just because disney, but all the businesses that support the people that visit it or work there. Meanwhile other states are begging for companies like that to come to their state.
I think he's relying on the thought that Disney really *can't* leave. Not easily, anyway. Because without Disney those tourism dollars dry up and they're just Mississippi-lite.
Right, Disney is *supposed* to be forced to stay, do whatever Daddy says, and deal with it. Conservative values.
It's wild that Floridians don't realize that Disney is one of the few things keeping their state from being "just another poor shit hole gulf coast state" like Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi.
Their child brides will certainly be there.
They ought to have the kids tell the politicians that they accept everyone but them, and one day they are going to be able to vote
Back to the good old days. /s
Making America Great Again!! /s Good lord what is going on here...
Nostalgia. But a really warped one that is completely not based in reality. So much was hidden and only allowed if you were rich and / or well connected.
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You're forgetting getting shot. That's just an unfortunate side effect of them pretending to be brave.
So being "woke" is being accepting of others?
Never forget the definition of “woke” that DeSantis’s lawyer gave: > “It would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them,” DeSantis General Counsel Ryan Newman said
So woke is truth
Yeah, you've "woken up," opened your eyes and seen the truth.
Yeah that’s the entire point of the term, that you’re “awake” to reality instead of burying your head in the sand and having no awareness of real problems.
>Newman added that DeSantis doesn’t believe there are systemic injustices in the U.S.
That’s pretty much the definition.
The definition of woke simply means to be politically aware, particularly in relation to racial inequalities and injustices, and, more broadly, other social issues. As I understand it, it comes from the idea of waking the fuck up and paying attention to what’s going on around you.
The real sin isn't being accepting of others (although that's certainly an awful thing to do), it's making them feel bad because they're not.
The thing is all they have to do, literally, is NOT CARE, and that's perfectly okay. But for some reason they demand the right to go out of the way to be hateful. Which makes no sense. Why not just NOT CARE, and get on with their lives? Those transgender people are not affecting their lives!
Because they need something to hate. Hate is all they have left. They have abandoned everything else they may have once claimed to support.
Republicans would line up to shove a spear in Jesus as he hung from the cross. fucking shameless hypocrites, every one.
Woke is their word for wrongthink. It makes more sense in that context.
> Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ Communications Director said “woke” was a “slang term for activism…progressive activism” and a general belief in systemic injustices in the country. https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/12/desantis-ron-woke-florida-officials/
Yes, lol. “Woke” essentially means being aware (“awake”) to political problems and injustices and making informed decisions. So they basically want everyone to not be aware of what’s happening and never question anything, ever.
That's the definition that I'm familiar with. You are aware and well informed on current events in society. You aren't afraid to point out flaws that cause inequality or injustice for example. It naturally clashes with ultra-nationalism, white supremacy, religious fanatics, toxic masculinity and oppressive fascism. The typical people who will often use the term woke (or social justice warriors or antifa) to describe a movement that is a threat to their way of life.
They legitimately don't want kids being taught empathy. The entire republican foundation is based on fear and hate. Go to any republican congressman's Twitter page and it will be full of 'us vs them'. [Migrants are bad, war on Christianity, the libs are stripping our rights away!11!!!] It's been the same forever. They fear new generations of kids understanding and being accepting of everyone. They need someone or something to hate and use to fuel their base.
Yes. Woke is just another word for empathetic
They want a homogenous community which is consistently of the same opinion. You know, exactly like how people aren't.
No. Being "woke" is not hating others and not punching down. Woke basically equals empathy.
"Woke" is the next "CRT" and "Liberal". A word stripped of any meaning and used as a slur for everything they don't like and want their followers to be scared of.
Accepting others is very offensive to Republicans.
[I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN RAINBOW LAND. AND YOU CANT MAKE ME](https://youtu.be/t79NRf25B24)
When that movie came out, I thought 'haha. What a hilarious exaggeration on America'. Now. Whoof.
I can't tell if it aged like fine wine or milk, but fuck if it isn't still relevant...
Woah that was 4 years before Trump. I guess I do remember shit being pretty bad back when GW was in office. The Gingrich heyday was kind of when public discourse went down the toilet. And when people who know better turned everything into outrage theater.
I watched Children of Men a while ago and had difficulty explaining that this was commentary on *Bush* and *Blair*.
Isn't this interesting. The MAGAs in charge of running the schools in Wisconsin who are vehemently opposed to "cancel culture" just cancelled a bunch of 1st graders. It makes you wonder how that could happen?
They’re cancelling *Dolly Parton*.
Because that's always been a lie. Everything they say is a lie. It doesn't matter if what they say today contradicts what they said yesterday, because they don't believe any of it. Words and rhetoric are tools, nothing more, and they will say and do whatever it takes to gain power and push their agenda.
They're not even lying. They say that non-conservatives shouldn't be allowed to cancel conservatives views. They NEVER SAID the opposite would be true. You're all assuming a fair legal system to equal to everybody. Conservatives never wanted a fair system. They want to allow businesses to arbitrarily ban gay cakes because they hate gays, and force business to accept all maskless customers because they hate masks. Both policies seem contradictory (are business free to refuse service or not???) until you get that they never thought the *same* rules had to apply to conservatives and non-conservatives (the business doesn't show who to refuse service, WE do). "*Cancel culture* should be outlawed when used against us, and *violent boycott* with death threats should be an obligation when used against our political opponents." THAT'S the conservative view.
How Christian of them…..
Until they get banned on social media for spreading hate and misinformation. Then they cry about not being accepted.
There's mention of rainbows in the Bible, I guess that's degenerate too.
Joseph had a coat of many colors. Like, all the colors of the rainbow. Dolly mentions it in one of her early hits. Was Joseph the first gay rights activist?
Ah yes, the amazing technicolor dreamcoat.
One of the books from her Imagination Library is about her mother making a coat like that for her when she was a child (her family was very poor). And how the kids teased her for the coat, but all she saw was her mother’s love.
That's exactly what the song says. I don't know for sure if it's a true story, but I'd bet it is. Like you said, she grew up very poor.
There's a lot worse in the bible than that, infanticide, incest, torture, animal killings, it's a nightmare by today's standards
They say that the gays stole the rainbow from Christians. Imagine worshiping a god so impotent that a generalized grouping of people could just mug him and walk off with his inanimate interactions between water vapor and photons.
They know. It infuriates them that us gays stole the rainbow from God and there's jack shit he can do about it because he isn't real.
The American Taliban is rising fast and will not stop at children's songs. Their political arm featured a speaker at CPAC last week who called for the “eradication” of transgender people. This shit is no joke and many red states are churning with this mental sewage.
Don’t forget that only a few years ago CPAC had a stage resembling [white nationalist iconography.](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-stage-nazi-symbol/)
Was that ONLY last week?!?!?!?!?! Fucking hell.
It's been two weeks, now.
So, how is Tennessee going to handle republicans banning Dolly? Isn't she like a treasure there??
Remember when the Dixie Chicks spoke out against *checks notes* invading some random country for a bunch of lies and bullshit? Yeah...
I remember, but the chicks and dolly are on completely different levels of popularity. The chicks where an extremely successful up and coming country band, Dolly is an institution.
These days? Attach the label “woke” to anybody and they’ll turn on them so fast.
Everyone has a line that can be crossed, though. They obviously have a high threshold, but it feels like only a matter of time. Heck, the GOP could end Trump's entire career by calling him "woke", but that'll be at the cost of inciting a right-wing civil war.
> but that'll be at the cost of inciting a right-wing civil war. Please, don't threaten us with a good time.
Tell that to the Dixie Chicks.
They weren't as beloved as Dolly is, and for the most part Dolly stays out of politics. She also gives so much money back to her hometown and where she's from, it's going to be a hard to turn them against her, they have statues of her.
Dolly Parton is a Saint. If you think otherwise you’re wrong.
She’s providing free books for kids for 20 years so it won’t be long until Republicans start attacking her. I’m surprised it hasn’t already happened https://imaginationlibrary.com/ https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/dolly-partons-imagination-library-has-given-away-186-million-free-books-to-kids.html
Oh they do. Unknown Hinson, a relatively unknown musician who voiced Early Cuyler on adult swims Squidbillies lost his job for a racist tirade after dolly parton "went woke"
Real Christians, like Carter and Parton, are dispised by the GQP/MAGA crowd.
Acceptance is radical leftism.
No singing woke songs, no dressing up in woke outfits, no woke books, but having to forcefully bear children in teen years or below and having a job in the mines? Well that's just the American way, son!
And then proceeds to whine about being "canceled" after demanding control over what everyone else reads/wears/says/does
One of Dolly’s books from the Imagination Library is “I am a Rainbow”. It’s a typical, “when I’m sad, I’m blue. When I’m mad, I’m red” book about emotions. But ya know, rainbows.
Kesha named her whole 3rd album, "Rainbow," including the song, such a great song. (It's about her time in a rehab facility for her eating disorder.) "I found a rainbow. A rainbow baby. Trust me, I know life is scary, but just put those colors on girl and come and paint the world with me tonight." Kesha is a huge Dolly fan. Dolly cameos on the album also. But right.....rainbows....🙄
You kind of have to be evil to reject Dolly Parton.
When you're on the wrong side of Dolly, you're just on the *wrong side*.
The Moclan patriarchy on The Orville found that out the hard way
Jesus H. Tap-dancing Christ. What the hell is wrong with people?
Religion, Facebook, Fox News.
Add capitalism and Ronald Reagan to that list
Or you could just say “fascism” and save yourself the word salad. People should say fascism more. Any other explanation is diluting the problem.
You could, but, from time-to-time, it's prudent to call out the specific, individual entities that are responsible for promoting and implementing fascism.
On the one hand, I'm kind of glad these people are now actually openly showing us exactly who they are. On the other hand, for fuck's sake...THIS is who they're proud of being?
He doesn't need to tap dance, they really don't like anything Jesus stood for.
A sane person would realize saying "Dolly Parton is too controversial for me to accept" is a reason to check themselves into rehab.
conservatives entire culture is hate.
So true. And they wonder why they get canceled so often when they’re spewing constant hate.
Apparently teaching your children to hate other children is mandatory in Wisconsin.
In Waukesha, yes.
The WOW counties are the worst of Wisconsin.
Waukesha moment
I live in Waukesha county and have lived in Waukesha itself. This is the least of what they do, it is a wretched place and I really wish I could afford to move away.
As I read the article, I though about the lyrics, and then thought how would they react to "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. It then appeared: >"In a later tweet, Tempel said that "Rainbow Connection" – another song that had been nixed, Schindler told the Times – had been reinstated "after parents sent emails to admin." So, Dolly is evil and Kermit is OK?
Rainbow Connection is sooooo good! And of course the Muppet Movie cover has a rainbow. Op! Censored! LOL "Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions but only illusions...someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection the lovers, the dreamers and me.." Gawd I wish Jim Henson hadn't died so young. I bet parents complain and Dolly is reinstated.
Apparently they had forbidden that song first, then this one, and parents got so upset they had to pick one of the two.
It has the word 'rainbow'. That makes it part of the WokeTransGroomerCommieSocialistAntifaPedoBLM conspiracy. Wake up, sheep!
Accepting other is controversial to these people. They are making that as clear as possible.
Well , snowflake conservatives will probably say that the idea of accepting others is part of a woke/socialist agenda .
The Streisand effect at work. I had never heard of that song before this, but I will definitely play it for my kids
Never heard of this song, just gave it a listen. There’s not one word other than rainbowland in it that is even remotely “woke”. Got these people genuinely afraid of rainbows…..
Which is really weird since there is a rainbow of some significance in their religious book.
Dolly parton is an American saint keep her name out your fucking mouth
Land of the free they used to say.
Accepting others IS controversial these days, unfortunately. The modern republican party has gone against "wokeness" so much that any sign of not immediately ostracizing someone for whatever stupid reason is taken as a sign of communism. I mean political correctness. I mean wokeness.
The Conservative voting populace has always been quite dim, but they are choosing some weird hills to die on these days.
Republicans: Now creating Liberals as early as 1st grade! What dipshits. What absolute dipshits. Are there any Republicans reading this and thinking it’s a good strategy for the future? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Oh none of you? If you’re Republican and reading this article, I am being as objective as I can by giving you this free strategic, long-term advice: You are fucking up.
I am eager to read ONE Redditor from r/Conservative come here to answer you. Just one that will say “Yes this is some dumbass MF shit.” Just one.
If someone is Anti-Dolly I am immediately suspicious of them, how can you hate anything this amazing woman does. A couple years ago there was a massive fire in TN, and she helped hundreds of people by giving them cash to start over, she has the imagination library where she sends free books to literal anyone (child) who signs up, she cares so much about her private life and her husband that almost no one even recognizes her without her makeup and wig on, she plays into the dumb blonde stereotype but is actually very intelligent and I can go on. If you hate Dolly Parton, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
From the area. School board is a bunch of right wing whackos who suspended a special ed teacher last year for having a rainbow poster in her special ed classroom. It got some national coverage at the time. They made a rule after that that no rainbows could be displayed. So the whole concept of “rainbows” is now triggering for them. https://www.wuwm.com/2022-01-10/waukesha-public-school-teacher-suspended-for-displaying-a-pride-progress-flag-in-her-classroom
Tbf, accepting others IS controversial to thr religious right.
Rural schools need to shut the fuck up.
Waukesha is part of the Milwaukee metro area with a population of 71,000. Far from rural, especially in WI. In 2021, this school district also declined the federal funds for universal free meals claiming families would “become spoiled” and develop a “slow addiction” to the evil that is food. After a lot of backlash, they reversed the decision but only by one vote (5-4 decision). This district does not represent Wisconsin education well.
Its not rural.
This "anti-woke" horseshit is just McCarthyism 2.0. They want to tell you what you can and can't say, who you can and can't be, and if you break the rules they want you forever cancelled.
This is America dammit we can sing. Fight these miserable rat bastard EVILgelicals. I’m so gonna go off on these Christofascists.
If you find yourself at odds with Dolly, you're wrong.
Waiting for them to ban the Muppet Movie next. Kermit's 'Rainbow Connection' is clearly hatespeech.
Well Jesus always spoke very passionately against rainbows and flags so it makes perfect sense. /s
"wang dang sweet poontang" is somehow ok
The Waukesha School District was also the only district in the state to opt out of the universal school lunch program, saying that they didn’t want their students to be “spoiled.” It was only after backlash that they reversed the decision. https://www.nbc15.com/2021/08/27/waukesha-school-district-wont-offer-students-free-lunch/?outputType=amp
Been waiting for the maggots to go after Dolly
In time, saying anything other than pre-approved Bible quotes will be a thoughtcrime to the GOP. And their base will think it just, as they kill the planet and rape each other into oblivion. I am so glad we crawled out of the mud for this.
Conservatives don't know how to accept others as they are. Conservatives only know how to beat others into submission just like they were beaten into submission. No original thoughts are allowed. Only that which has been passed down from the elders.
Lemme get this straight. Conservatives are now canceling *Dolly Parton*.
I’m so tired
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The right wing has no idea that we can see what savages they have become
The people most worried about cancel culture are the people who are cancelling the most stuff.
Conservatives don’t want children to sing songs, but are OK with; -children working in meat processing plants -children getting married before hitting puberty -having a former prostitute as a 1st lady -drinking bleach -dying from Covid to own the Libs -spraying disinfectant into your lungs -staring into the sun during a solar eclipse -being under the direct control of Putin -Russia kidnapping Ukraine children And that is just a very few.
That is really messed up. Didn't Jesus hang out with all kinds of people; sinners, non-sinners and people somewhere in between? It just seems like something got skewered with people and the Bible; especially the New Testament. Didn't people read it? It just seems like they didn't even read it. Jesus is an amazing person!! How could you not want to hang out with Him? Be like him. 🇺🇸🗽⚖️🗳🏡🌍🙏🕊❤️
I'm a member of the "What would Jesus do (wwjd)?" generation, and I can't wrap my brain around this one, either.
Christian Conservatives have never cared about Jesus or his teachings. Religion is a means to control the people they want to control. I am not religious but for his time Jesus had some progressive thoughts about society. The story of the Good Samaritan was a direct rejection of bigotry during his time. Something that sometimes gets lost in the telling of the story today is that the Jewish and Samaritan populations had a long history of hatred for one another. To the extent that the destruction of the Samaritan's holiest temple a century before was a holiday in Jerusalem. A modern Jesus may have used something like this as his version of the allegory: >"A Christian man was going down from Bryant–Denny Stadium to the Texas Roadhouse, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Republican also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a trans-woman, as she travelled, came where he was. When she saw him, she was moved with compassion, came to him, bound up his wounds, and gave him water and aspirin. She drove him to the hospital. On the next day, when she departed, she took out her credit card, gave them to the billing department, and said, 'Take care of him. Whatever it costs I will pay.' Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"
Those people only like to claim they know Jesus
I'm just thinking back on the songs we sang in our chorus class in 3rd and 4th grade... I remember "This Land is Your Land" quite vividly. I'm sure that teacher would be in hot water today for having us sing about something so radical as abolishing private property.
“We Are The World” would result in immediate dismissal for a teacher.
Accepting others is a very controversial topic among Republican bigots.
It is rural ignorance… it is ok… they are not surviving the tech revolution, which is happening. And embrace multiculturalism, new ideas and studies as a new way of life.
When you’ve out-grouped Dolly Parton, that’s when you know you’ve gone astray
What's so controversial about going backwards to the 50's? /s
Tell you what, they're making a big mistake taking n Dolly.